When you speak to anyone who was a Dodger fan you feel their love for the team and the wound they felt when the team left for Los Angeles. The […]
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Thursday Spotlight: Sustainable Work Blooms at Greenpoint’s Flower Clvb
Our Thursday Spotlights often feature the multitude of painters, ceramists, and cartoonists in our colorful neighborhood. But Greenpoint’s cultural scene reaches far beyond visual artists, and florist Grace McDonald more […]
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Toast to Greenpoint, MatchaFam Summer Disco, The Other Art Fair, Secret Brooklyn — What’s Happening, Greenpoint? (5/1-5/7)
WEDNESDAY 5/1 * We Got You: Meeting Your Guardians and Guide @ Devi Collective (191 Nassau Ave), 8pm, $40, experiential group healing circle that uses gentle breath work and movement […]
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Help Cleanup and Green Williamsburgs’ Waterfront This Weekend
The Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park and Riverkeeper are hosting their 8th annual Riverkeeper Sweep this weekend to help clear debris from the Brooklyn waterfront and garden near the East […]
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Greenpoint Film Festival Returns Thursday 5/2 – Sunday 5/5
The Greenpoint Film Festival is back this week for its 8th edition with four days of film screenings — spanning topics from environmentalism to displacement and gentrification — and panel […]
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North Brooklyn Parks Alliance Hosts Spring Community Meeting 5/2
UPDATE: The meeting is being rescheduled: “Due to some unforeseen circumstances, this meeting is POSTPONED until further notice.” The North Brooklyn Parks Alliance will host a meeting with local advocates […]
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Brooklyn Rental Prices Reach New Highs, Except North Brooklyn
Albany is currently debating rent reforms to help solve the ever-worsening affordable housing crisis in NYC, and two new reports show that apartment rental prices have reached historic highs in Brooklyn […]
Posted in(Not)Forgotten Greenpoint
How McGuinness Boulevard Was Created
Maybe it is just me, but I find McGuinness Boulevard ugly. Huge trucks and streams of traffic wiz by the four-laned, soulless traffic artery. The newer apartment buildings lack […]
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Take a Historic Stroll at Jane’s Walk This Weekend
The Municipal Art Society of New York is bringing back Jane’s Walk NYC, which is part of “a global festival of free, volunteer-led walking conversations inspired by urban activist Jane […]
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New Greenpoint Library Expected to Open This Fall
The Greenpoint Library (107 Norman Ave.) closed in July 2017 for demolition, and construction on the new library was estimated to finish in the winter of 2018, but the discovery […]